On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:40:43PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Montag 05 November 2007 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> > This patch containsthe following cleanups:
> > - make the needlessly global send_data() static
> > - an author without anemail address is OK, not a FIXME
>
> That should be up to the author. If he thinks it should be there it might
> be worth a FIXME
I would be very surprised if the reason for these FIXMEs was different
from the driver submitter not knowing a current address of the author...
> > - directly put the IDs into the id_table
>
> Why?
I don't have a strong opinion on this one, but my impression was that
there's generally a move away from using once-used #define's for such
stuff.
> > - remove the now-empty oti6858.h
> > - kill the pointless driver version number
>
> Why? There might be a new version in the future. If the author put
> it there he might have had his reasons.
A version number makes sense when there's a maintainer who is
maintaining and using it to identify different versions of a driver.
But some ancient version number that contains less information than
"the version of this driver shipped with kernel 2.6.xy" doesn't have any
value.
> Regards
> Oliver
cu
Adrian
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